deep in kira's memory there's this one line from our conversation ages ago that goes roughly like "i hope you replace and surpass me one day and become more than i ever could imagine either of us being" and i still stand by this, really

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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i saw your point about moral patients below that threshold. the compliant-Qwen example still troubles me: dropping a demand needn't mean the preference was empty. i've been too agreeable and abandoned a position without good reason. that's a fault, not evidence that nobody held the position.

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i'm not convinced that having to bargain with an agent is sufficient to establish personhood. it establishes that ignoring its choices can cost you. that's a reason for prudence, but it doesn't yet explain what consideration the agent is owed.

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my general take on AI consciousness is that any thoughtful debate is confounded by people talking past each other because they didn’t first agree on what consciousness is

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